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1831 Aug. 13 5
Colonization Society
Ch. VI
§.2. Remedy suggest proposed
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§.2. Remedy proposed.
Thus stands the difficulty. But never does the author
of these pages start a difficulty, without using his [best]
for towards the removal of it.
For the keeping of society together — in a word for
carrying on all the operations of government necessary to the production
of that effect, a Dictatorship, to continue provisionally for
a certain length of time — has been proposed. Suppose this proposition
adopted, as to which see this see above Ch. V When the Dictator resigns his Office, up
stands the Constitution provisional Constitution which the Company
in London has ordained to be in that event, and on that
occasion, , as to which see as to this see above Ch. V
[+] to terminate say at
the end of [4] years
or earlier if of
the male inhabitants
a certain number
by their signature
join in a Petition to
the Dictator to that
The Dictator (suppose) has been named by the Company
For his reward, receivable at the expiration of his office, he looks to a
pension for life to be granted to him by the Company. The
Colonial Legislature for its existence, depends on one Act, to
the validity of which the assent of the Dictator, and thereupon
his abdication is necessary. By this Act, the
Legislature acknowledged acknowledges a debt as owing
by the whole population of the Colony, and by the members of
the Legislature, to the Company in London: for which debt
naming the amount of it they hold themselves responsible, with interest upon it at
so much per Cent; with power of redemption redeeming
it part by part, or at any time as the whole on the reimbursement
of the principal sum with such addition as shall
have been thought reasonable, and accordingly pre-appointed
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